I bought my first cell phone that isn't a Sidekick. Did I run out and buy a treo, a blackberry, some crazy new smartphone? Nope. A cheap little prepaid i415 phone from boost mobile, scored off of ebay for $55 after adding the car charger and data cable. Boy does this phone suck. It took me 3 minutes to enter a url on it that I could have typed in 5 seconds on the sidekick. (I'm never buying T9 phone for everyday use) It's screen is tiny and horrible resolution. Not to mention the thing is just plain ugly. So why did I get it? It's the cheapest internet enabled gps receiver I can get my hands on. For $0.35 a day I've got unlimited data, which can also be tethered via usb for laptop access at dialup speeds. I hear you scoffing already, why not bluetooth? This phone has no idea what bluetooth is. Like I said, it's a terrible phone. But coupled with the free mologogo software it lets me upload my location to a nifty little google maps page. It also gives me an excuse to learn and play around with the Google Maps API, and it will help let everyone know where we are when I make the great road trip to San Francisco next month. So after $55 for parts (cheaper than just about any GPSr I know) and $0.35/day, I've got a new geek project to play with (as if I needed another).

Btw, a huge thanks to exiva for all the info since he's already played around with mologogo.

For those that want to see the div tracking page (still in development): http://www.edrabbit.com/where/youat.php

PB&C. It doesn't get any better than this!

Just hanging out with the rabbits on the front porch.

My data cable and car charger showed up in the mail. i415, where you at dawg?

Sure enough, the easiest way to pack a cat is to set out an empty box. Within seconds....

I was 6 years old, dad had just bought a Mac and we got a blazing fast 1200 baud modem and got hooked up with Compuserve. I was going through downsizing my "stuff" and came upon this old modem and the original Compuserve manual. It's laughable looking back at it now. It was $15.00/hr to connect during prime time!! And that was for 1200 baud. If you had 9600 you were shelling out $47.50 an hour! Now for less than $50 a month I can get online at 6mbps. Plus it was $4 exta a week for 64,000 characters over your limit of 128,000 characters of online storage. Wow. This probably qualifies as the first time I got online, as the bbs days were 8 years later. I have faint memories of playing games and wasting mom and dad's money for hours on end. Hehe

Some random shots of Mike and Michelle dancing in the middle of Idols, the bar down the road. If you're ever around Palatine, IL and want a drink, head on over and Blaine will hook you up.

I was hoping to make it out of Chicago before the first snow hit. Nuts.

The one thing that put a smile on my face yesterday was my shirt arriving a week before I thought it would get here. Apparently I made the Friday cut off somehow. Big thanks to Imaginary Foundation for getting it out so quick and for offering unique shirts. If only there were some long sleeve ones! I also discovered Nik Ainley through them. Nik does incredibly cool work that's worth checking out.

I don't even use my tmail address for anything. :(